European Factors to Watch-Shares seen edging up ahead of U.S. payrolls

LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - European stocks were seen rising for a ninth
consecutive session on Friday, as traders bet on further support from U.S. jobs
data due later in the day.

At 0604 GMT, futures for the Euro STOXX 50, Britain's FTSE 100
, Germany's DAX and France's CAC were up between 0.1 and
0.3 percent.

The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index has risen for eight
consecutive sessions, its longest winning streak since October 2013. Then, the
index surged for nine days, clocking its best run since 2010, Datastream showed.

The last 10-day unbroken rally on the FTSEurofirst dates back to 2006,
before the global financial crisis.

Non-farm payrolls data due at 1230 GMT were expected to show U.S. job growth
likely accelerated in March as the winter's gloom started to lift, providing the
strongest signal yet that the world's largest economy was shifting into higher
gear.

Underpinning investor appetite ahead of the data release were suggestions by
the Federal Reserve's chair Janet Yellen earlier this week that the bank's
ultra-easy policy would be needed for some time. The European Central Bank's
president Mario Draghi also boosted the market mood by opening the door to
unconventional stimulus measures.

"We're pretty upbeat about the payrolls," Fahran Ahmad, a trader at
Tradenext, said.

Non-farm payrolls were expected to have increased by 200,000, the largest
gain in four months, according to a Reuters poll of economists.

"We expect a strong U.S. payroll number today as the jobs market recovers
from the winter period, which should give the healthy market tone and the dollar
another boost," analysts at Credit Agricole wrote in a note, adding they
expected non-farm payrolls to have risen by 225,000 in March.
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